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This paper studies the welfare impact of alternative scenarios of trade protectionism and liberalization in Argentina … long run effects are negative. On the other hand liberalization scenarios tend to have short term negative effects but … poorest households. Liberalization scenarios improve households' welfare in the long run with a slight pro rich bias. …
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The EU reforms will increase the Caribbean sugar price, but will not affect the U.S. sugar industry. If liberalization … expected the Caribbean price to increase from 8.7 to 12.1 cents per pound. Key Words: Sugar, Liberalization, EU Reform, Doha …
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Tackling the problem of ecosystem services degradation is an important policy challenge. Different types of economic instruments have been employed by conservation agencies to meet this challenge. Notable among them are Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes that pay private landowners to...
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face-to-face auctions than at comparable Internet auctions. The comparison overcomes adverse selection issues that commonly … dates between online and offline auctions. Furthermore, both auctions feature ascending price formats with ‘soft …. The results suggest that the higher prices and net revenues from traditional auctions are attributable to remaining …
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Although the WIC food assistance program purchases over one-half of all US infant formula, I find the program has little impact on the prices paid by non-WIC customers. I estimate infant-formula marginal cost and find that it is low compared to price, implying large price-cost markups. But, the...
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Poster prepared for presentation at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association 2010 AAEA,CAES, & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, July 25-27, 2010.
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The goal of our analysis is to enhance the understanding of the value of antitrust regulatory activities, specifically the impact of investigations of anticompetitive behavior. The results suggest that prices significantly increased as soon as the targets of the investigation were made aware...
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Incentive compatible auction experiments, often referred to as homegrown value auctions, have become a popular tool for …
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This study investigates the Cup of Excellence coffee auctions and explains with behavioral economics observed …
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